There they connected two ends of a 4 000 kilometer 2 500 mile long 1 5 centimeter 0 6 inch wide cable.
Internet cable ocean floor.
Cables lying on the seafloor bring the internet to the world.
They transmit 99 percent of international data make transoceanic communication possible in an instant and serve as a loose proxy for.
The data zips from new york to sydney from.
The internet consists of tiny bits of code that move around the world traveling along wires as thin as a strand of hair strung across the ocean floor.
The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic establishing the first instant telecommunications links between continents such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became.